Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-27

the catamount takes him. What would
become of the Greenlsnder if, when out
hunting for the bear, he should stand
shivering with terror on an iceberg?
What would have become OF DuChaillu
and Livingston in the African thiCket
with faint heart and weak knee? When
a panther comes within twenty PAGES of
you and has its eyes on you and has
squatted for the fearful spring, "Stesdy
there"
Courage, 0 ye spiritual hunters. There
are great monsters of iniquity prowling
all about the community. Shall we not
in the strength of God 90 forth and COM
bat them? We not only need more heart,
but more backbone. Whist is the church
of God that il should fear to look in the
eye any transgression? There is the
Bengal tiger of drunkenness that pr0wls
around, and instead Of attacking i, now
many OF US hide under the church pew or
tHe communion table? There is so much
invested in it we are
AFRAID TO ASSAULT IT;
millions Of dollars IN barrels, in watts, in
spiggots, in corkscrewS, in gin palaces
with marble floors and Itslisn-top tables,
and chased ice-cooIers, in the strychnine,
and the logwood, and the tartaric acid,
and the nux vomica that 60 to make up
our "pure" American drinks. l looked
with wondering eyes on the heidelberg
tun." 1t is the great liquor vatof Ger
many, which is said to hold eight hundred
hogsheads of wine, and only three times
in hundred years has II been filled.
But, as stood and looked at it, said 10
myself: "Thst is nOthing-eight hundred
hogsheads. Why our Americanvat holds
t SOC, 900 barrels of strong drinks, end
we keep 500, 600 men with nothing TO DO
but to see that it is filed" Oh, to
attack this great monster Of intemper-
ance, and the kindred monsters OF fraud
and unCleanness requires you to rally ell
YOUR Christian courage. Through the
press, through the pulpit, through the
platform you must assault it, Would to
God that all our American Christians
would band together, not for crack Drained
| fanaticism, but for holy Christian reform.
l think il was in 1898 that there went out
! from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign
the greatesl hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10000 armed
men in that hunting party. There were
camels, and horses, and elephants. On
some, princes rode, and royal ladies,
under exquisite housings, and 500 cool
| les waited upon the train, and the
! desOlate places of India were invaded by
this excursion, and the rhinocerous, and
deer, and elephant, fell under the stroke
CT the
SABRE AND BULLET.
After a willie the party brought Dach
trophies worth so 900 rupees, having left
the wilderness of india CHASTITY with the
slain bodies of wild beasts. Would TO
God that instead Of here and there g
straggler going out to fight these great
monsters Of inIquity in our country, the
million membership OF our churches
would band together and new in twain
these great crimes that make the land
frightful with their roar, and are fatten-
ing upon the bodies and souls OF immOr-
tai men. Who is ready for such party
as that? Who will be q mighty hunter
for the Lord?
remark again: If you want TO be sue
cessful in spiritual hunting, you need not
only to bring down the game, but bring
it il. | think one of the most beautiful
pictures Of ThorWaldsen is his eau
tumn." 1t represents sportsman COM
ing home and standing under grapevine
He has staff over his shoulder, and or
the other end of that staff sre hung rab'
bit aud brace Of birds. Every hunter
brings home the game. No one would
think OF bringing down q reindeer or
whipping up q stream for trout, and let
ting them lie in the woods. AT eventidC
the camp is adorned with the treasures o.
the forest-beak, and fin, and antler.
II YOU 90 out TO hunt for immOrta
souls, not only bring them down under
the arrow of the Gospel, but bring then
into the Church Of God, the grand home
ard encsmpment we have pitched thi
side the skies. Fetch them in, do not le
them lie out in the open field. They neeC
our prayers, and sympathies, and help
That is the meaning Of the Church O
God-help o We hunters for the Lord! moi
b only bring down the game, but brln;
it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so wei
that Cor seven years he never wen
: indoors, what enthusiasm ought we Il
have who are hunting for immortal souls
. If Donitian prac.iCed archery until b.
could stand BOY down in the Roman
amphitheater, with hand out, th
fingers outstretched, and then the KIN:
! could shoot an arrow
BETWEEN THE FINGERS
without wounding them, to what drill
. and what practice ought not we to sub
ject ourselves in order TO becom
spiritual archers and "mighty hunter
before the Lord" But let me soy, yO1
will never work any better han yo
pray The old slchers took the bow, pu
one end Of it down beside the foot, ele
waited the other end, and it was the rul
that the bow should be Just the size c
: the archer; If it were just his size, the
he would go into the battle with conf
dence. Let me say that your power I
project good in the world will correspon
exactly 10 your own spiritual stature. l
: other words, the first thing, in prepsra
ton for Christian work, is personal con
! seCTation.
Oh for q closer walk ith God,
4 calm and heavenly frame,
a light to shine upon the road
{ That leads me TO the Lamb.
am sure that there are some here Wh
/ at some time have been hit by the Gospe
arrow. You felt the wound of that con
q viction, and you plunged into the worl
Y deeper; lust as the stag, when the hound
2 are after it, plunges into Scroon lake, ez
e pecting in that way to escape. Jesu
Y Christ is on your track to-day, impeniter
n man; not in wrath, but in mercy. on,
? chased and painting souls! here Is tn
stream of Gods mercy and salvation
where you may cool your thirst. Sto
r that chase of sin to-day. By the re
r fountain that lesped from the heart OF 10
s Lord, l bid you stop. There is mercy &c
h you-mercy that pardOns; mercy tbs
b heals; everlasting mercy. Is there in a
1t this house anyone who can refuses q
Y offer that comes from the heart OF tt